Robin Leroy

Surprise 4-legged Olympic competitor wows cross-country fans Nazgul sprints on the course at a cross-country ski race, crossing the finish line in an unsanctioned quest for glory.

#noussommesNazgul
www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...

Par compatibilité avec la norme de télévision japonaise ARIB STD B24 ; apparemment cette norme l’avait parce que ça sert en baseball (unicode.org/versions/Uni..., www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U...).

Oui! Ça va avec mon chauffage atomique à l'air physique (chauffage individuel au gaz naturel).

J'avais jamais fait gaffe à celle-là mais elle est vraiment pas mal ! Ce que j'avais adoré pour ma part : les camions remplis de "métaphores ethniques" (εθνικές μεταφορές = transports nationaux) et le "centre pneumatique" à l'intérieur d'une église (πνευματικό κέντρο = centre spirituel).

pedestrian bicycles then?

An old time-y illustration of a Cats.

Today is Quintidi the 25th of Nivôse in the year 234.
Nivôse is the month of snow.
Today we celebrate cats. #JacobinDay

More information on cats

If these are pwoofs, is this pwof. Gab⟨b⟩ay?

At this point, I'm going beyond telling you to touch grass. You need to eat it.

And then throw up on the carpet.

Unicode

It can be tricky to accomodate the things people do in real orthographies within the confines of the sacrosanct stability policy and similar concerns. See, e.g., the Background discussion of §2.1 in www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/251..., featuring ¸ used as a letter.

xkcd.com/1726/

Of course there are many other commandments on the tables of the Stability Policy www.unicode.org/policies/sta...

Thou shalt not unmake a case pair, nor make a case pair out of pre-existing characters (so the full uppercase of ß must never become ẞ, no matter what the Germans do with it).

Meanwhile I’m trying to bring back eyren. There has to be a way to make a pun out of those two…

So life is not like a blanc-manger?

Is this UseSTD3ASCIIRules=false from www.unicode.org/reports/tr46...?

Enabling Source Control integration in Windows File Explorer

(www.gilgamesh.ch/svc/svc.html...)

I’m gin.

Hmm, isn’t it rather more often written (𒀭)𒄑𒉈𒂵𒈩, with MES=MEŠ₃ rather than MEŠ?

ePSD2 (via OSL) has 𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌 for gilgameš₂, but Borger MZL p. 485 has instead gílgameš=𒄑𒉋𒂵𒈩, so it looks a lot like a typo.

And then five years ago Steve added a gilgameš₄(𒄑𒉋𒂵𒈩) in
github.com/oracc/osl/co....

What a 𒈩s…

So all squares are Kates (for dainties are all Kates)?

YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone Pet Shop Boys - Go West (Official Video) [HD REMASTERED]

Just remembered that in addition to being one of the best party bangers ever, 'Go West' by the Pet Shop Boys has a video which is about gay space communists conquering America

youtu.be/LNBjMRvOB5M?...

🌫😶‍🌫️

Are any admirals involved?

That one is oracc.org/dccmt/P347488 = cdli.earth/P347488, which doesn’t quite look right.

I think your photo is instead oracc.org/dccmt/P347486 = cdli.earth/P347486 (also the 24 times table, written by the same student four days earlier, if I am reading this right?)

I mostly don’t talk at conferences (being a software engineer, I can get away with not doing any of that), but last time I did so a couple of years ago I ended up not being able to decipher my own handwritten notes while presenting, so it ended up being unscripted anyway…

A brioche on a small wooden cutting board on a stone table, with A Grammar of Akkadian in the background.

That reminds me, it’s been a while since I’ve sent you pictures of brioches…

The pictographs were provisionally assigned (185-C2), I guess they will be in Unicode 19 (September 2027).

(Of course cuneiform has been in Unicode since 2006, so people have long been able to post their third millennium or later receipts on social media…)

By the way, the characters proposed in that document have been approved for inclusion in Unicode 18 at the latest UTC meeting (decision 185-C39), so in September next year you should be able to post the numbers from that tablet as plain text on BlueSky.

www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/252...

The draft minutes of Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #185 (recorded by yours truly) have been posted: www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/252...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

See system Š* in www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/242... p. 42 and the various works by Englund referenced there (and of course see zenodo.org/records/3739... = [Eng98]).

I think here the kinds of numerals (N20, as well as N47 in the total on the reverse, with those little ticks scattered over the numbers) tell us what it is (barley groats), so the pictograms must be something other than the things being counted.